Chrystia Freeland Quotes

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things.

The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

Merely slogans and statements will not remove poverty.

When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

We may believe in the state's responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America's population, but most of us also affirm that there is no better cure for that poverty than a stronger, more globally integrated economy.

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.

India, China, and Latin America have a tremendous stake in the people's century. As their masses learn to read and write, and as they become productive mechanics, their standard of living will double and treble.

This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that.

I didn't have any personal goals when I came, but after being in politics - after seeing people, their difficulties, their wants - I think our goal has to be to eliminate poverty from India.

Middle-income countries need to attend to the education of their poorest people to build their economies and ensure long-term stability.

China and India are the success stories; rapid growth in large countries is an engine that can make a colossal dent in world poverty.

I'm confident that it is with the strength of the poor that India will move forward.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'

The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.

China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous.

Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system.

Free trade will go a long way toward alleviating poverty in Central America. Yet trade alone is not enough.

Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.

What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch.